[Almondsetat]

He contradicts himself in the span of a single sentence. How is it possible that this was done solely by Italy (with concerns from the rest of the EU) and yet this is the work of a cabal of European media elites? If this were true, why isn't the entire EU involved?

[wmf]

Italy and Spain are doing the same thing and there may be other EU countries being controlled by football leagues that I haven't heard of.

[jimnotgym]

> there may be

Indeed, but there may not be. so maybe don't base any strong opinions on that kind of logic.

[ben_w]

That's not really a self-contradiction; if we pretend the USA's copyright lobby had made California pass a similar law… well, that might not work, I have no idea if that would be unconstitutional inter-state trade restriction or something in the USA, but for the sake of showing why it's not a self-contradiction can we pretend?

If the US media elites had convinced California to do that, they'd be a "shadowy cabal of [US] media elites", even if there was opposition from the rest of the USA.

Again, don't read too much into if this would actually work in the USA, the EU is not the USA, this isn't that kind of comment.

[bflesch]

It's not that long ago that US media conglomerates used MPAA to threaten Sweden to remove piratebay?

[ben_w]

Sure, but Sweden isn't in the US so I don't see that illustrating anything in this analogy.

[jimnotgym]

US media elites got DMCA and YouTubes copyright strike introduced, I suppose they were powerful enough to sidestep the states and go after Congress instead.